Congratulations are due to the DTA Public Education Advocacy Committee which did a great job during the Provincial Election campaign of raising education as a vote defining issue.  As Chair of this committee, Pat Truelove organized several activities that were designed to get our education message out to Delta voters.  A number of newspaper advertisements that featured statistics about Delta classrooms were placed in the local newspapers.  The PEAC committee, on behalf of the DTA, in partnership with the Delta District Parents’ Advisory Council and CUPE local 1091, also organized two successful all candidates meetings in each of the two Delta ridings.  All of the candidates running in Delta attended both all candidates’ meetings which was not the case elsewhere.  A questionnaire was sent to each of the candidates for completion and distribution to teachers living in Delta.  Finally, some hardy teachers from Holly Elementary and Brooke Elementary Schools braved pouring rain and hail to join Pat Truelove on Nordel Way and me on the overpass at Highways 10 and 17 on election day to wave Burma shave signs to oncoming traffic.  The message was simple:  VOTE TODAY THINK EDUCATION.  My thanks to each teacher who helped promote education as a vote determining issue in their own way.

For the first time since I started regularly attending school board meetings almost eleven years ago, the Delta Board of Education on May 5, 2009 publicly stated that it did not receive enough money from the provincial government to fund Delta schools.  For years the silence has been deafening as school trustees, through the BC School Trustees Association, were compliant in making cuts to district programs while the government washed its hands of the dirty work trustees were forced to do.

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